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W1 TN ELSSES: QXWMZ/ A TTORN E YS Patented Sept. 28, 1943 UNITED STATE KNITTED FABRIC James Everett Patton, Shelbyville, 'Tenm, assignor to Davenport-Woosley Processing Corporation, Chattanooga, Tenn., a corporation of Tennessee Original application August 12, 1941, Serial No.

406,458. Divided and this application May 30, 1942, Serial No. 445,162

21 Claims. (Cl. 66-187) The present application is a division of a prior application Serial No. 406,453, filed by me on August 12, 1941.

This invention relates to knitted fabrics, and

yarn.

The stocking blank exemplified in Fig. 1 may have a shaped leg portion (not shown) produced in the well known way from a single yarn and terminating in an ankle portion A, the direction has reference more especially to fiat knitted 5 of knitting being indicated by the arrow in the selvaged fabrics useful, for example, in the procenter of the figure. Beginning with the course duction of full fashioned stockings and the like, 3-33, the fabric is progressively widened for a and characterized by having parallel edge portime by addition of end loops along each edge to tions as Well as widened and narrowed portions a course CC'-C2-C3,- with attendant forma' with inclined edges tion of the upper portions of projecting heel tabs Amongst the objects of my invention are to or cheeks at opposite edgesof the blank having avoid sleaziness in the selvages of fiat knitted inclined selvages B-C and B3-,C3. The web is fabrics of .the kind referred to and at the same next progressively narrowed as. far as 'a line time increase resistivity to raveling, particularly E-E'-E2E3 for completion of the heel proalong the edges of portions or sections which are jections H, with incidental formation of lines reinforced by employment of an auxiliary yarn C'E and C2-E2 of fashioning marks at comor yarns in the knitting, and which are progresplemental angles to selvage segments C-Eand sively widened by the occasional addition of end C3E3, whereupon the foot of the stocking is loops. This desiderata I attain in practice as knitted :in a suitable manner with an instep hereinafter more fully disclosed through a novel .20 portion I of 11I1if01'm W dt t9 t e line interlocking of the loops at the-selvages at the and with a tapered toe portion T therebey0nd. fabric edges. I If desired, a few courses of uniform width fabric In connection with reinforced knitted fabrics may be knitted before transition from the widenhaving the above attributes, it is a further aim of ing to the narrowing at the apexes of the heel my invention to reduce the thickness of the sel- 2 projections H to approximate a more rounded vage edges with a view toward precluding bulky configuration in the latter. 'By use of two addiseams, when such edges are, joined by overedge tional yarns in conjunction with a main yarn, I stitching as is ordinarily done in full fashioned preferably reinforce the heel projections H as hosiery production, This advantage I also re- Well as the side marginsor sole areas of the foot alize in practice as more fully set forth later as indicated by the wale line shading. herein through formation of the end or selvage In Fig. 2 which shows a fragment of the wale loops of the fabric either wholly or in part widened portion of one of the heel cheeks H, cerfrom one or the other of the twoyarns used in tain Wales or the web are designated by the knitting plain reinforced areas, or in the case of numerals and successive courses of the fabric reinforced ringless fabric by similarly forming by the numerals 2|-33, while the main or body the end wales either wholly or in part from one yarn is designated by the letter-Y and the auxof the several yarns used in the knitting. iliary or reinforcing yarn by the letter y. I Other objects and attendant advantages will From Fig. 2, it will be noted that in the lower appear from the following detailed description parallel edged or'ankle part A of the fabric fragof the attached drawings, wherein 4n ment, selvage loops 4| are formed in the edge Fig. 1 is'a fragmentary view of a full fashioned wale 4 in alternate courses 2| and 23 from the stocking blank formed from a fiat knitted selmain yarn Y alone, and that in the penultimate vaged fabric conveniently embodying my inven- Wale 3 selvage loops 46 of the reinforcing yarn tion. v are doubled with plain loops 4'! of the main yarn Fig, 2 is a fragmentary detail view showing in the intervening courses Hand 24, while in the the exact formation of the selvage along the remainder of such fabric portion plain loops widened portion of one of the reinforced heel 42 of said reinforcing yarnare doubled with cheeks of the blank at the rectangle II in Fig. 1. plain loops 43 of said main yarn. In the first 4 Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 showing a widened course 26 of the fabric in Fig. 2, a' slight variation in the selvage; and twisted loop 49 formed from one of the yarns,

Fi 4 is a view in turn ke 2 of i d in this. instance the main yarn Y, in the edge .fabric formed in acco dan Wi my ve i wale 5 is doubled with an untwisted loop 50 of. s a ringless S ructure by use in the knitting of the reinforcing yarn y, such selvage loop being three main threads together with a reinforcing locked by virtue 'of the passage of the main yarn Y through coincident sinkerwale loops 5| and 52 of both yarns. The next widened course 30,

has an untwisted loop 58 of the main yarn Y in the edge wale 1 doubled with a twisted loop 59 this instance the reinforcing yarn 3 through a sinker wale loop 60 formed from both yarns. Attention is directed to the fact that, in accordance with my invention, two extra end wale loops are added in the second step-out as distinguished from the addition of but one single loop in the first step-out in the course 26. Several unwidened courses 21, 28 and 29 may be interposed between the widened courses 26 and 30. In the course 21 it will be observed that the edge loop 53 in the wale 5 is formed solely from the main yarn Y, while in the next adjacent wale i in such course, a loop 55 of the reinforcing yarn y is doubled with a plain loop 54 of the main yarn. Beyond the widened course 30, the selvage loops 6| of the alternate uniform width courses 3| and 33 in the edge wale 1 are formed from the main yarn Y alone. In the intervening course 3 2, however, end selvage loops of the reinforcing yarn y are doubled with plain loops of the main yarn as instanced at 62. Beyond the course 33, it is to be understood that the double wale widening is repeated at suitably spaced intervals as often and to the extent desired or required, with maintenance of the above characteristic interlocking of the loops at the selvages.

The modified selvage of Fig. 3 is generally like the selvage of Fig. 2 except that in the second widening out course 30a (which corresponds to the course 30 in Fig. 2) an untwisted loop 590 of the reinforcing yarn y isfdoubled with an untwisted loop 58a of the main yarn Y in the edge wale In. It is to be particularly observed that one leg of the loop 59a passes through double sinker wale loops of the main and reinforcing yarns at 600 in the course 3la, and

that one leg of the loop 58a passes through a sinker wale loop of the reinforcing yarn only at 600. with consequent locking of the selvage against rav'eling at that region.

In Fig. 4, the three main yarns from which the fabric is produced as a ringl ess structure are designated respectivelyby the characters Y2, Y3 and Y4, and the yarn used in reinforcing by the character t2. As shown, the selvage formation of the fabric at the widened course 39b is similar to the selvage formation of the corresponding course 30 of Fig. 2 since it involves a twisted end loop 59b of the reinforcing yam g2 which is looked through passage of such yarn through an adjacent sinker wale loop 501), and which is doubled with a spread loop of one of the body yarns comprehending the two added end' wales of the fabric. A' slight variation will however be noted here in that the crosswise portionof the twisted loop 59b is within the sinker wale loop 60b and that the latter constitutes a loop inthe succeeding course 3lb. Except for longer skips of the main yarns at the selvages, the construction of the fabric of Fig. 4 isotherwise generally like that of Fig. 2. a

From the foregoing it will be seen that in all the illustrated forms of my improved knitted fabric, the selvages are effectively locked against the possibility of easy raveling. It will also be seen that byvforming the end selvage loops either throughout or in alternate courses from is considerably reduced with consequent preclusion of bulky seams when such edges are united by sewing.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. A flat straight-selvaged knitted fabric produced from two yarns, in which all the courses are reinforced by interknitting of the two yarns except at end loops in alternate courses, which end loops are formed from one of the two yarns only.

2. A fiat straight-selvaged knitted fabric produced from two yarns, in which all the courses are reinforced by interknitting of the two yarns except at the selvage loops in alternate courses, which selvage loops are formed from one of the yarns only.

3. A flat knitted fabric with a widened reinforced selvage edge produced from two separate yarns, and having a widened course in which a twisted end loop of one yarn at such edge is doubled with an untwisted end loop of the other yarn.

4. A fiat knitted fabric with a widened reinforced selvage edge produced froma main yarn and a reinforcing yarn, and having a widened course in which an untwisted end loop of the main yarn at such edge is doubled with a twisted end loop of the reinforcing yarn.

5. A fiat knitted fabric with a widened selvage edge produced from two yarns and having a course widened one wale at said edge in which wale a twisted selvage loop of one yarn is doubled with an untwisted selvage loop of the other yarn, and in which course the first yarn passes'through a sinker wale loop formed from both yarns adjacent said end wale loop in such course, while the second yarn passes to the outside of such sinker wale loop.

6. A flat knitted fabric with a widened selvage edge produced from a main yarn and a reinforcing yarnand having a course widened by one wale at said edge in whichvwale an untwisted selvage loop of the main yarn is doubled with a twisted selvage loop of the reinforcing yarn,

' and in which course the main yarn passes through a sinker wale loop formed from both yarns adjacent said end wale loop in such course, while the reinforcing yarn passes to the outside of said sinker wale loop.

7. A fiat knitted fabric with a widened reinforced selvage edge produced from two yarns and having widened courses in which a twisted end loop of one yarn is doubled into coincidence with an untwisted end loop of the other yarn at such edge, and wherein said loops are both interengaged with two adjacent loops of both yarns in a succeeding course of the fabric.

8. A fiat knitted fabric with a widened reinforced selvage edge produced from a main yarn and a reinforcing yarn, and having widened courses in which a twisted end loop of the reinforcing yarn is doubled into {coincidence with an untwisted end loop of the main yarn at such edge, and wheren said loops are both interengaged with two adjacent loops in a succeeding course of the fabric.

9. A fiat knitted fabric with a reinforced Widened selvage edge produced from two separate one only of multiple yarns employed in the knitting, the edge thickness in reinforced parts yarns and having a widened course in the first step out at such edge wherein a twisted end loop of one yarn is doubled into coincidence with an untwisted end loop of the other yarn; and other widened courses in which a twisted end loop of one yarn is doubled into coincidence with an untwisted loop ofthe other yarn and the latter oneness loops both interengaged with two adjacent loops terengaged with two adjacent loops in a succeed-' ing course of the fabric.

11. A flat knitted fabric with a widened reinforced selvage edge produced from two yarns andhaving a course widened by two needle wales at said edge in the end wale of which course a ,v twisted selvage loop of one yarn is doubled with an untwisted selvage loop of the other yarn, and in which the first yarn passes through a sinker wale loop formed from both yarns intermediate the two added needle loops in such course, while the second yarn passes to the outside of such sinker wale loop and through a sinker wale loop next adjacent the first mentioned sinker wale loop also formed from both yarns.

12. A fiat knitted fabric with a widened reinforced selvage edge produced from a main yarn and a reinforcing yarn having a course widened by two needle wales at said edge in the end wale of which course a twisted selvage loop of the reinforcing yarnis doubled into coincidence with an untwisted selvage loop of the main yarn, and

in which the reinforcing yarn passes through a sinker wale loop formed from both yarns intermediate the two added needle waleloops in such course, while the main yarn passes to the outside of such sinker wale loop and through an inwardly adjacent sinker wale loop also formed from both yarns.

13. A flat'knitted fabric with a widened reinforced selvage edge produced from two separate yarns and having a course widened by two needle wales atsaidedge, in which course selvage loops of both yarns are interengaged with two adjacentloops in a succeeding course of the knitting, and in which a portion of one of such selvage loops extends through the sinker wale loop conand a reinforcing yarn and having a course widened by two needle wales at said edge in which course selvage loops of both yarns are interengaged with two adjacent loops in a succeeding course of the knitting, and in which a portion of the selvage loop of the reinforcing yarn extends through the sinker wale loop connectin the adjacent loops of said succeeding course.

15. A flat knitted fabric with a widened reinforced selvage edge, produced as a ringless web from plural body yarns employed in succession in-a repeating sequence in conjunction with a reinforcing yarn, wherein a twisted selvage loop formed from the reinforcing yarn in each widened course' is doubled with a coincident untwisted loop formed from one of the body yarns.

16. A flat knitted fabric with a widened reinforcing selvage each produced as a, ringless web from plural body yarns employed in succession in a repeating sequence in conjunction with a reinforcing yarn, wherein a widened course is extended by the distance-of two wales, wherein a twisted selvage loop formed from the reinforcing yarn in such widened coursev is doubled with an untwisted coincident spread 100p formed from one of said body yams and comprehending the two added Wales,- and wherein the crossed portion of said twisted loop of the reinforcing yarn is looked through interengagement with the sinker wale intervening corresponding adjacent needle wale loops in the next succeeding course of the knitting. i

17. A flat knitted stocking blank having widened lateral heel cheek projections at opposite edges with outwardly and downwardly sloped selvages characterized as in claim 2.

18. A fiat knitted stocking blank having widened lateral heel cheek projections at opposite edges with outwardly and downwardly sloped 40 selvages characterized as in claim 3.

19. A flat knitted stocking blank having widened lateral heel cheek projections at opposite edges with outwardly and downwardly sloped selvages characterized as in claim 10..

20. A flat knitted stocking blank having widened lateral heel cheek projections at opposite edges with outwardly and downwardly sloped :selvages characterized as in claim 11.

necting the adjacent loops of said succeeding course.

14. A flat knitted fabric with a widened reinforced selvage edge produced. from a main yarn 21. A flat knitted stocking blank having wid-' ened lateral heel cheek projections at opposite edges. with outwardly and downwardly slope selvages characterized as in claim 15. 

